15 Best PS4 Compilations

Zero Escape: The Nonary Games puts the escape-the-room visual novels Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Virtue's Last Reward together for the first time, with 999 updated with voice acting and sharper graphics. The first game started on the Nintendo DS, where it came out in Japan in December 2009 and in North America in November 2010. The story follows Junpei, a college student who is abducted along with eight other people and forced to escape from a sinking cruise liner.

You alternate between escape rooms and story scenes, and your choices steer 999 toward one of six endings. It was made as a stand-alone game, but its unexpected critical success in North America prompted the continuation of the series. Players still recommend it.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 rebuilds the first two games from the ground up, with the original skaters and levels back. Neversoft made the originals in 1999 and 2000. Vicarious Visions made it for Activision, and it reached the PS4 on September 4, 2020. It even has tricks from later games in the series, so it plays a little more modern than the originals did.

It was also the last game Vicarious Visions made before Activision merged the studio into Blizzard. It became the fastest-selling game in the series, selling one million copies within the first two weeks. The complaints are about the multiplayer mode and the limited number of levels. It still makes plenty of players' lists.

The Heavy Rain & Beyond: Two Souls Collection pairs two games from Quantic Dream and designer David Cage. Heavy Rain's PS4 remaster came out the same month as the collection. Heavy Rain first appeared on the PS3 in February 2010. Its story follows four characters caught up in the mystery of the Origami Killer, a serial killer who uses long stretches of rain to drown his victims. David Cage wrote the 2,000-page script, and the score was recorded at Abbey Road Studios.

What you do changes the story, and any of the four can die depending on your actions. The pair still comes up whenever players talk about Detroit: Become Human.

Batman: Return to Arkham remasters Arkham Asylum and Arkham City in Unreal Engine 4, with all their downloadable content. Warner Bros. rebuilt the 2009 and 2011 originals for the PS4. Arkham Asylum was written by veteran Batman writer Paul Dini and developed by Rocksteady, and the game takes place entirely on Arkham Island, where the Joker has set an elaborate plot to seize control of the asylum. Arkham City is the sequel and has a bigger cast of characters, with a story again written by Paul Dini.

The frame rate is the weak spot. The collection was capped at 30 frames per second, and at launch Arkham City ran uncapped at up to 60. Batman fans still bring it up.

Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue remasters Dream Drop Distance in HD and adds two new pieces: Back Cover, a film based on Kingdom Hearts χ, and Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by Sleep, A Fragmentary Passage, an original game set after Dream Drop Distance. Square Enix announced it in September 2015 and released it in January 2017. The new game shows what happened to Aqua during her time lost in the Realm of Darkness.

Series director Tetsuya Nomura put that story here to avoid having too much backstory in Kingdom Hearts III. The graphics use technology that was being built for Kingdom Hearts III, which makes this a sneak preview with a box around it. It still turns up on players' PS4 lists.

Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 Remix gathers six Kingdom Hearts experiences in HD on the PS4, the first game's Final Mix among them. That version began life as an expanded release sold only in Japan, and it only reached the rest of the world later, as part of the 1.5 Remix. The 1.5 half comes in high definition and with trophy support.

Chain of Memories started on the Game Boy Advance in 2004 with a real-time card-based battle system, which makes it very different from the main games. It is the perfect place to start swinging the Keyblade and save the Disney worlds from darkness. Players still put it on their lists.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition remasters the trilogy with almost all of its single-player downloadable content, more than 40 packs of it. It came out on May 14, 2021. BioWare treated it as a remaster rather than a remake, so the trilogy stays the way you remember it. The first game got the most work: the Mako is faster with new physics, and you spend less time in the elevators that used to hide its loading screens. The games also run in sharper resolutions and at higher frames per second than the originals.

Your choices as Commander Shepard can carry forward through all three games. Mass Effect 3's multiplayer mode was left out. Players rate its story among the best in any game.

WipEout: Omega Collection brings together all of WipEout HD, its Fury expansion and WipEout 2048: 26 tracks and 46 ships, in 4K on a PS4 Pro at 60 frames per second. A later update added PlayStation VR support. It was the first WipEout game not made by the series creators at Studio Liverpool, which closed in 2012. WipEout HD itself holds content from the PSP games WipEout Pure and WipEout Pulse. In Zone mode the player must survive as the ship accelerates to extreme speeds.

Critics welcomed the series' return and the techno soundtrack that survived the move. You can play local split-screen or online. Players rave about how it looks, in 4K and in VR.

The Ezio Collection holds Assassin's Creed II, Brotherhood and Revelations, the three games about Ezio Auditore, with their single-player add-ons and enhanced graphics. It follows him from Renaissance Italy to 16th-century Constantinople, as he seeks vengeance for the betrayal of his family. The first game follows Ezio's journey as an Assassin while seeking revenge against those responsible for the death of his father and brothers. The collection came out on the PS4 on November 15, 2016.

Assassin's Creed II alone sold more than nine million copies within six months. The two sequels let you recruit new Assassins and send them out on missions of their own. The multiplayer modes didn't make the trip. Players say it has the best story in the series.

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy rebuilds the first three Crash games, from the 1996 original to Warped, with new lighting, a soundtrack with live instruments and Coco playable in all three. The PS4 had it to itself for a year. Vicarious Visions had no original source code to work from, so it rebuilt the games using polygon meshes that Sony and Naughty Dog provided. In the originals Coco only played in a few levels of Warped. The trilogy follows Crash as he navigates linear 3D platforming levels to thwart Doctor Neo Cortex and his henchmen. Time trials, introduced in Warped, were added to the first two games along with online leaderboards.

The rebuild changed the jumping physics, and the difficulty is uneven. It still gets recommended.

Spyro Reignited Trilogy remakes the first three Spyro games from scratch in Unreal Engine 4. It came out on the PS4 in November 2018. In the early planning stages, the staff from Toys for Bob brought their concept sketches of the titular dragon to the original team. Stewart Copeland, who scored the originals, wrote a new theme, and Tom Kenny re-recorded all of Spyro's lines, even for the first game, where Spyro originally had a different voice. Insomniac Games could not provide source code or original assets, so Toys for Bob used an in-house emulation tool called Spyro-scope to study the levels.

It has sold over 11 million copies, which makes it the best-selling game in the series. Players still put it on their PS4 lists.

Metro Redux rebuilds Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light in a newer version of the 4A Engine, running at 60 frames per second on consoles for the first time. It was also the first time Metro 2033 reached a PlayStation, eight years after it was first announced for the PS3. The remaster of the first game picked up updates the developers made to the engine while working on the sequel. The story is based on a novel in which survivors of a nuclear war have taken refuge in the Metro tunnels of Moscow, and you must wear a gas mask to explore areas covered in nuclear radiation.

Last Light came out in 2013, after Deep Silver bought the publishing rights from THQ following its bankruptcy. Players call it a great single-player shooter.

BioShock: The Collection remasters all three BioShock games in 1080p at 60 frames per second, with their single-player add-ons, Minerva's Den and Burial at Sea among them. New collectibles hidden around the first game unlock Imagining BioShock, a director's commentary with Ken Levine and Shawn Robertson. Blind Squirrel Games helped 2K with the work, and it came out in September 2016 with new textures and support for higher resolution displays and framerates.

It needed updates after release to fix bugs and crashes. A patch in early October 2016 also added graphics options. It was a bestselling title in the United States and United Kingdom in its first months. Players recommend it anyway.

The Handsome Collection holds Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel with all their downloadable content, and you can bring your saves over from the PS3 or Vita. Its big addition is split screen for four players instead of two, though the frame rate drops to 30 when all four are playing. Iron Galaxy ported Borderlands 2 and Armature Studio ported The Pre-Sequel, which had only come out on the PS3 and Xbox 360 before. The compilation was announced on January 20, 2015, and Gearbox Software made the games and 2K published them.

The Pre-Sequel's frame rate is inconsistent, and switching games means rebooting the whole thing. Players recommend it above all for couch co-op.

Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection remasters the first three Uncharted games in 1080p at 60 frames per second, made by Naughty Dog between 2007 and 2011. It took the largest team Bluepoint Games had ever put together, and they tried to make all three games play alike. It was released in October 2015 exclusively for the PS4. Bluepoint overhauled the aim assist system and grenade gameplay from the first game to match the others. The team also added a photo mode.

Critics praised the graphics and the controls. The multiplayer from Uncharted 2 and 3 was left out. Players usually recommend it in the same breath as Uncharted 4.